cs2038 - The REXX Programming Language - Windows UNIX/Windows and Many other Platforms
April, 2005 Edition Copyright Arnold Kochman. Other copyrights also apply, in particular the General Public License. REXX was specifically designed to be a general-purpose scripting language. The main goal of REXX is to be uncomplicated to use, and to this end, it has been designed with some rather unique properties: REXX has only one data type, the character string, so no declarations are needed. The underlying hardware representations tend not to impinge upon program development. REXX uses decimal arithmetic with arbitrary precision that is not determined by the hardware environment. REXX puts no inherent limits on the size of strings, including numeric context. REXX has no globally reserved words. REXX is a small language, with little idiom, so that it is easy to learn to use.Notwithstanding its simplicity, REXX is highly extensible, and can be used as a general purpose programming language. Furthermore, REXX has a number of unusual features, such as associative arrays and dynamic variable scoping, that make many algorithms much easier to design and implement. These advantages have led to the rapid acceptance of REXX. REXX is a programming language that was designed to be easy to use for inexperienced programmers yet powerful enough for experienced users. It is also a language ideally suited as a macro language for other applications. Further information on REXX can be obtained from the REXX Language Association at http://rexxla.org/ and the IBM REXX page at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/You will need one of the commonly available unzip utilities, such as PKUNZIP or WinZip. There are various archive formats, which generally are appropriate to the area of applicability of the contents. Source distributions, except and for Windows, binaries as well.The packages are at a fairly mature level of development. However, I assure that they are suitable for any particular purpose.
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